Fact Book
9368. Fact
The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
9369. Fact
The popular name for the giant sequoia tree is Redwood.
9370. Fact
Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation
9372. Fact
Over 4.5 billion sticks have Trident gum have been chewed. If the stick of gum were laid out end to end they could circle the globe approximately 1.8 times
9373. Fact
Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
9374. Fact
There are some species of snails that are extremely venomous.
9375. Fact
Tomato ketchup is a good conditioner for the hair. It also helps get the greenish tinge that some blonde haired people get after swimming in water with chlorine in it
9376. Fact
A famous bullfighter, Lagarijo, killed 4,867 bulls in the 19th century.
9377. Fact
Pound for pound, hamburgers cost more than new cars.
9378. Fact
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room
9379. Fact
The dumbest dog in the world is the Afghan Hounds
9380. Fact
Some of the titles that were considered for the hit T.V. show Friends were Six Of One, Across the Hall, and Insomnia Cafe
9381. Fact
Manhattan Island of New York City was purchased for $24 from the Algonquian Indians in 1624.
9382. Fact
Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine
9383. Fact
The first company to mass produce teddy bears was the Ideal Toy Company
9384. Fact
Washington State has the longest single beach in the United States.Long Beach, WA
9385. Fact
The first fruit eaten on the moon was a peach
9386. Fact
Most landfilled trash retains its original weight, volume, and form for 40 years.
9387. Fact
In the spring of 1975, a baby in Detroit fell 14 stories and landed on Joseph Figlock, who was walking below. A few years later it happened again. Figlock and both babies survived
9388. Fact
The Nike swoosh was invented by Caroline Davidson back in 1971. She received $35 for making the swoosh. The first shoe with the swoosh was introduced in 1972
9389. Fact
Following directions off the Internet and chemicals obtained from a mail order company, a team of U.S. scientists created an identical copy of the polio virus.
9390. Fact
The movie that grossed the most money that was adapted from a T.V. cartoon is Scooby-Doo
9391. Fact
The New York Yankees have won the most champoinships (26 times) in their respected sport (MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL) for any professional sports team.
9392. Fact
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated
9393. Fact
In 1888, an Egyptian peasant discovered an estimated three hundred thousand mummified cats in Beni Hassan, Egypt. Of the cats that were not stolen once, the find was made public, the remaining mummified cats were shipped to Great Britain to be used as agricultural fertilizer
9394. Fact
There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada
9395. Fact
The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.
9396. Fact
When the volcano Krakatoa off the Java islands exploded in 1883, it was so loud that it woke some people up in South Australia
9397. Fact
The four highest grossing movies of the 1940s were all animated motion pictures by Disney (Bambi, Pinnochio, Fantasia, and Cinderella).
9398. Fact
On average, 150 couples get married in Las Vegas each day
9399. Fact
The expression Tying the Knot comes from an old Roman custom where the brides clothes were tied up all in knots and the groom was supposed to untie the knots
9400. Fact
The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anaesthesia, and was then painted blue and red
9401. Fact
The second best selling game of all time is Jenga. Jenga is a Swahili word, meaning to build.
9402. Fact
The cheetah is the only cat in the world that can't retract its claws.
9403. Fact
The coldest capital city in the world is Ulaan Bator, Mongolia.
9404. Fact
A crocodile can run up to a speed of 11 miles per hour
9405. Fact
TYPEWRITER, is one of the longest words that can be made using the letters only one row of the keyboard
9406. Fact
There are more plastic lawn flamingos in the US than real ones.
9407. Fact
Rembrandt died broke. A friend had to come up with the $5.20 it cost to bury the great master.
9408. Fact
In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast
9409. Fact
Ted Turner owns about 2% of New Mexico.
9410. Fact
Every photograph of the first American atomic bomb detonation was taken by Harold Edgerton
9411. Fact
There are an estimated 2,500 collisions between birds and planes each year in the US
9413. Fact
Of all the countries, Brazil has the most plant species, with over 56,000
9415. Fact
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
9416. Fact
There are more kinds of bacteria in your mouth then there are people in the world.
9417. Fact
The right side of a boat was called the starboard side due to the fact that the astronavigators used to stand out on the plank (which was on the right side) to get an unobstructed view of the stars. The left side was called the port side because that was the side that you put in on at the port.
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